List of Famous people born on April 21st
Atle Lie McGrath
Atle Lie McGrath is a Norwegian World Cup alpine ski racer, a member of the Norwegian Alpine Ski Team. He gained his first World Cup podium in December 2020 in a giant slalom at Alta Badia, Italy.
José Pedrozo
José Félix Pedrozo Bogarín was a Paraguayan footballer who played as a defender.
Pedro Mosquera
Pedro Mosquera Parada is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for SD Huesca mainly as a defensive midfielder.
Max Pfister
Max Pfister was a Swiss Romance studies scholar and linguist.
John Law
John Law was a Scottish economist who distinguished money, a means of exchange, from national wealth dependent on trade. He served as Controller General of Finances under the Duke of Orleans, who was regent for the juvenile Louis XV of France. In 1716, Law set up a private Banque Générale in France. A year later it was nationalised at his request and renamed as Banque Royale. The private bank had been funded mainly by John Law and Louis XV; three-quarters of its capital consisted of government bills and government-accepted notes, effectively making it the nation's first central bank. Backed only partially by silver, it was a fractional reserve bank. Law also set up and directed the Mississippi Company, funded by the Banque Royale. Its chaotic collapse has been compared to the 17th-century tulip mania in Holland. The Mississippi bubble coincided with the South Sea bubble in England, which allegedly took ideas from it. Law as a gambler would win card games by mentally calculating odds. He originated ideas such as the scarcity theory of value and the real bills doctrine. He held that money creation stimulated an economy, paper money was preferable to metal, and dividend-paying shares a superior form of money. The term "millionaire" was coined for beneficiaries of Law's scheme.
André Luis
André Luis da Costa Alfredo, known as André Luis, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Corinthians.
Paul Karrer
Professor Paul Karrer FRS FRSE FCS was a Swiss organic chemist best known for his research on vitamins. He and Norman Haworth won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1937.
Nazim Al-Haqqani
Mehmet Nazım Adil, commonly known as Sheikh Nazim and Wrote Book "The Path of Spiritual Excellence", was a Turkish Cypriot Sufi Muslim sheikh and spiritual leader of the Naqshbandi tariqa, a Sufi order.
Muhammad al-Qiq
Muhammad al-Qiq or Mohammed al-Qeeq is a Palestinian Journalist, Correspondent and reporter at the Saudi News Agency Almajd TV Network.
Anna Muylaert
Anna Muylaert is a Brazilian screenwriter and television and film director.